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Ores

Pure Ores adds eight equipment-producing minerals and two decorative stones.

The listed values are generation attempts per chunk, not guaranteed successful veins. An attempt may fail because of the gamerule, terrain, or replacement rules.

Equipment ores

Ore Dimension Y range Attempts per chunk Replacement target
Moonstone Overworld 0 to 60 48 Overworld stone
Fire Opal Nether 32 to 80 8 Nether terrain
Jadeite Overworld -20 to 40 41 Overworld stone
Ametrine End 48 to 72 4 End stone
Chrysoberyl Overworld -40 to 20 37 Mica Schist
Sapphire Overworld -50 to 0 4 Deepslate
Black Diamond Overworld -64 to -40 50 Gravel

Moonstone

Moonstone is an iron-level material with higher durability than iron and slightly increased attack damage.

  • Dimension: Overworld
  • Y range: 0 to 60
  • Generation attempts: 48 per chunk
  • Mining level: Iron

Fire Opal

Fire Opal is found in the Nether and provides an iron-level tool set with increased durability.

  • Dimension: Nether
  • Y range: 32 to 80
  • Generation attempts: 8 per chunk
  • Mining level: Iron

Jadeite

Jadeite provides higher durability and mining speed than iron.

  • Dimension: Overworld
  • Y range: -20 to 40
  • Generation attempts: 41 per chunk
  • Mining level: Iron

Ametrine

Ametrine generates in the End and provides fast, highly enchantable equipment.

  • Dimension: End
  • Y range: 48 to 72
  • Generation attempts: 4 per chunk
  • Mining level: Iron

Chrysoberyl

Chrysoberyl generates in Mica Schist at deeper Overworld levels.

  • Dimension: Overworld
  • Y range: -40 to 20
  • Generation attempts: 37 per chunk
  • Mining level: Iron

Sapphire

Sapphire is a rarer deep-Overworld material with diamond-level mining speed.

  • Dimension: Overworld
  • Y range: -50 to 0
  • Generation attempts: 4 per chunk
  • Mining level: Iron

Black Diamond

Black Diamond is a diamond-level material that generates within gravel deposits.

  • Dimension: Overworld
  • Y range: -64 to -40
  • Generation attempts: 50 per chunk
  • Replacement target: Gravel
  • Mining level: Diamond

Lonsdaleite meteorites

Lonsdaleite is obtained from rare surface meteorites rather than a conventional underground ore.

  • Dimension: Overworld
  • Placement: World surface
  • Placement rarity: 280
  • Feature type: Surface meteorite structure

Meteorites can affect the surrounding terrain and may create magma and fire around the impact site.

Decorative stones

Serpentinite

  • Dimension: Overworld
  • Y range: -20 to 40
  • Generation attempts: 2 per chunk
  • Use: Decorative building stone

Mica Schist

  • Dimension: Overworld
  • Y range: -40 to 20
  • Generation attempts: 2 per chunk
  • Use: Decorative building stone
  • Also used as a replacement target for Chrysoberyl generation

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